Grant Achatz Quotes

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.

I hate having my picture taken.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I have a very well organized closet.

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

I don't like people touching my face.

I can't bear kissing scenes.

I hate being barefoot.

I don't like to carry things in my pockets.

I typically have one backpack, my everyday carry.

To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

You're getting your weird all over me.

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.

I hate clutter. I can't stand it.

I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.